Show your friends and blog readers what you've been up to on Global Grind with personalized widgets for your blog or website. We've rolled out two new widgets that display the last five things you submitted and the last five things you added to your favorites on Global Grind. To get your personalized widgets, go to your profile page. Click on the "Submitted" tab (for your "Submissions" widget) or the the "Favorites" tab (for your "Favorites" widget). Copy the code in the box below the widget, and paste it into your blog or website.

Here’s another way to share content with your friends. With our new Share Through Social Networks feature, you can post Global Grind content to your Facebook or MySpace profile. Let your friends instantly see what you’re reading, watching, and talking about. Here’s how to do it: Click on the Global Grind item you want to post to your profile. Click the “Share” Tab. Look for the “Through Social Networks” area near the bottom. Click on your choice of Facebook or MySpace. Facebook Instructions: If you're not already logged into Facebook, you'll be prompted to enter your Facebook email address and password. Choose whether you want to post the Global Grind content to your profile, or send it as a message to your friends. To post to your profile, type a personal comment, check the “No Picture” checkbox if you want to post without a photo, and click “Post.” To send the item with a message to your friends, click the “Send a Message” tab. Type in their names or email addresses, enter a personalized message, check “No Picture” if you want to send the message without a photo, and click “Send.” MySpace Instructions: When prompted, enter your MySpace email address and password. That’s it. The content automatically posts to your MySpace profile in the “About Me” area.

Thanks for bearing with us while we tried out some things on the site. As promised, we’ve rolled out changes that let you pick your favorite view. Here’s how you do it. 1. Go to your profile. 2. Click the “Edit Account” tab. 3. Look for “Select Default View” and choose the view you want to see every time you visit Global Grind. (If you choose “No Preference,” Global Grind will remember the last view you were in and automatically take you there when you come back as a signed-in user.) 4. Click “Update” to save your changes. Still confused about the views? Mouse over any tab (or the names of the views on the profile page) to get helpful tool tips about each view.

Remember we told you that we were trying something new? We switched things up to give more users a taste of Global View, and it turns out, a lot of you like it. (We know, we know. Getting all the latest news, gossip and updates from the top sites in one place? What’s not to like?) But, we’ve also heard from some of you who prefer Discovered, Up & Coming, or our GG Spotlight view. So we’ve decided the best thing to do is let YOU pick your favorite view and give it to you every time you visit us. If you’re logged into Global Grind and leave the site, we'll remember the last view you were in and we'll automatically take you there when you come back. Think of it like TiVo. Leave the site, go get a drink and come back. We'll still be paused where you left off. Also, coming very soon, you'll be able to specify your favorite view in your profile, so that you can always experience Global Grind the way you want to. Keep that feedback coming to globalgrind.com/feedback .

Hey, Global Grinders! You may have noticed that we’re trying something new on the site. Now, when you visit Global Grind, the first thing you’ll see is Global View . A lot of our users aren’t familiar with Global View, so we wanted to bring it to the forefront and expose more people to it. HOW GLOBAL VIEW WORKS Global View combs the web and brings you a variety of perspectives in one place. The latest content from the best sites and blogs is fed into Global View. Click on the headlines that interest you and check out the content. See something worth grinding? The small green “G” indicates that the content has not yet been submitted to our site. Click on the content to view it, and then click the “GRIND IT FIRST” button to submit it to the site. If someone has already submitted a piece of content from Global View (indicated by a small gray “G”), you can still check it out and grind it, trash it, or comment on it. OTHER VIEWS Don’t forget to check out our other views: Discovered view = Our most popular content, voted up to the top by users. Up & Coming view = See what other grinders have recently added to the site. GG Spotlight view = Our editors’ picks of the best content on the site. Which view do you prefer? Let us know at globalgrind.com/feedback .

We know you can't always be at your computer, so Global Grind now makes it possible for you to grind on the go: Whip out your iPhone, because Global Grind is going mobile! You now can submit, view, search, grind and share Global Grind right from your mobile phone! Get Global Grind for your cell phone, BlackBerry, or other mobile device by visiting m.globalgrind.com . One suggested use of our mobile app for you power grinders ? Tracking the number of votes on your submitted content.

Are you hungry for new readers? Want to be the next Perez Hilton ? The road to internet celebrity is a long one, but Global Grind can help. Add a Global Grind button or badge to your blog posts. Visit our Buttons & Badges page and select the type of blog or site you have (Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, etc.). Copy the html code below the icon you want and paste it into your blog post. Now your readers can grind your blog posts to our site with one click, getting you a whole new audience of Global Grinders!

That’s right. Now you can grind and view Global Grind content on Facebook. Go to http://apps.facebook.com/globalgrind or click “Facebook” in the footer on any Global Grind page to add the Facebook application to your page: Once you link your Facebook account to your Global Grind account, you can vote, comment and share photos, videos and stories with your Facebook friends. To link your Facebook and Global Grind accounts , click “Link to your existing Global Grind account.” Not a Global Grinder? Click “ Create a Global Grind account ” on our Facebook App page to sign up. Like chocolate and peanut butter, your favorite web apps are better together.

We've heard there’s some confusion among you grinders about what a “grind it” or "trash it" vote actually means, so let me explain. When you “grind it,” you’re vouching for the importance and popularity of that piece of content, not your personal agreement or disagreement with the views expressed within it. Grinding something is your way of saying, "We as grinders need to be aware of this piece of content." Your "grind it" vote helps bump it up the ranks so that more people are likely to see it and share it. For instance, as much as you might be offput by this fugly dress Jennifer Hudson wore to the Oscars, you would still grind the photo because, well, there’s just no way we’re not gonna speak on this mess. The same goes for trashing content. Don't trash a video or story because you disagree with it, trash it because it’s just not worth talking about. Good examples of stuff to trash include spam and solicitations , blatant self-promotion , general wackness , or anything you’re downright sick of seeing on the site . Want it to disappear? Think it has no place here? Then, “trash it!” Glad we cleared that up. Knowledge is power.

"It's a celebration!" © Rick James Our community’s growing like crazy, and the content you've been submitting is insightful, funny, scandalous, and downright addictive. Thanks to you, Global Grind continues to be the top destination for what matters to the hip-hop community. Here are some great new features the Global Grind team rolled out. Try them out and give us your feedback. Be Social You were the first in your crew to have an iPhone. You had a Wii before anybody else on your block. For weeks (or maybe months), you’ve been up on Global Grind before all your friends. Now it’s time to invite them to join you. Click “Invite” on the upper right corner of any page and enter their email addresses (separated by a comma, of course) and a personal message. You can also access the Invite function from your profile page. Be Opinionated See a comment that makes you squirt milk out your nose? (My personal fave is Speezy’s comment , “Lewinsky = Superhead of politics.”) Now you can rate comments and also sort them by their ratings. On the comments page , click the green “thumbs up” or the orange “thumbs down” icon to rate other users’ comments. To skip the fluff and see only the top-rated comments, use the “Filter Comments” drop-down menu. Comments are assigned a good, average, or poor rating, depending on user votes. Keep Track Now you can see everything you’ve ever viewed, submitted, grinded, trashed, commented on, or added to your favorites. You can also see the same for any grinder whose profile is public. Just click on their grinder’s name to see their user history. Hey, Look at Us! ABC News, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Fast Company and more are all talking about Global Grind. Read and watch media coverage of Global Grind on our new press page . Keep Grinding. Toodles!

Why wait til November to vote, when you can have your say every day on Global Grind? Once you've signed in, you can vote on content by clicking the 'Grind it!' or 'Trash it!' buttons. Photos, stories, and videos with the most 'Grind it!' votes will rise to the top of the Global Grind home page and their respective categories. What's popular today? It's Kim Kardashian by a landslide.

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